# For example, if you see {{ic|Pastebin Clients (Edit) →‎ Common Applications →‎ List of Applications}}, it means [[Pastebin Clients]] redirects to [[Common Applications]], and [[Common Applications]] redirects to [[List of Applications]]. Therefore, [[Pastebin Clients]] is a double redirect.

# For example, if you see {{ic|Pastebin Clients (Edit) →‎ Common Applications →‎ List of Applications}}, it means [[Pastebin Clients]] redirects to [[Common Applications]], and [[Common Applications]] redirects to [[List of Applications]]. Therefore, [[Pastebin Clients]] is a double redirect.

# Enter an edit summary such as "Fix [[Special:DoubleRedirects]]" and save.

# Enter an edit summary such as "Fix [[Special:DoubleRedirects]]" and save.

Revision as of 14:12, 2 January 2013

ArchWiki strives to be a clear, comprehensive and professional model of documentation. In order to reach that goal we have to organize the job in a rational and functional way: this article tries to explain schematically what are the most important tasks you can give your help to accomplish.

This is a community effort, but if you take on the task seriously, a formal position as a wiki maintainer may be in order.

Note: Always use the Edit Summary when editing articles, see Help:Style#Edit summary. If you intend to perform large changes that involve several articles, please discuss your plans first in an appropriate discussion page.

Maintenance

Add some articles to your watchlist and protect them against counter-productive edits.

Participate in discussions in the various talk pages: most users will be interested in following the most recent posts to generic discussions at this link. Maintenance-specific posts are instead listed in [1], [2], [3] and [4]; furthermore, ArchWiki:Requests is used as a talk page despite its namespace.

Organizing

Sorting, categorizing, and moving articles around has become a major task for all wiki maintainers implementing and improving the category tree.

Translating

Add or improve translations; ensure that translations are in sync with each other. Some languages have started collaboration projects (see list below) to efficiently organize the translation of the articles. Please consider joining your language's Translation Team or at least informing it when you are starting translating an article.